Ragging Deaths

Ragged to Death

This section will document some stories of ragging suicides, what drove the victim to commit suicide, and what happened to the case after that. These are stories of people who are no longer alive to tell the apologists of ragging just how much 'fun' ragging can be. Were the guilty punished? Were the anti-ragging laws enforced? Was the Supreme Court's order followed? And why does one commit suicide? What is it about ragging that makes people suicidal? We invite you to contribute articles and essays for this page.

Photo by P.V. Sivakumar in The Hindu, Hyderabad

Mohan Karthik, Chennai, 19 December 2004
'Following Karthik's death, his parents lodged a complaint with the Poonamalle police that the college, which failed to take any action despite their complaint, was responsible for their son's death.'

Ehsan Saba, Manipal, 17 August 2004
'Saba, a student of first year computer engineering in the Manipal Engineering College, died early this week when some senior students allegedly pushed him into the sea after he refused to jump in while being ragged.'

Sushil Kumar Pandey, Gorakhpur, 11 September 2003
"There was sexual harassment, naked parades and things like these. If authorities had taken some steps then probably this would not have happened," said Saurabh, a student.

Anoop Kapoor, IET Lucknow, 12 September 2002
'The note said that on some occasions, the seniors dragged the first-year students out from their rooms, took them to a room, asked them to strip down and play ''kabaddi''. It said the physical and mental torture of the first-year students did not end just there.'

Indu Anto: Suicide or Murder?
A collection of about two doxen news reports about the Indu Anto ragging death. Was it suicide or murder? The battle rages on in the courts, even as a filmmaker plans to put Anto's story on celluloid. The case remains the most high-profile ragging incident in recent memory; it led to the enactment of an anti-ragging law in Maharashtra.


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